Bug#544121: rhythmbox: Playlist "filename" support?

[Emilio Pozuelo Monfort]

forwarded 544121 http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=593472
thanks

ben wrote:
> I have a great deal of music that does not obey standard ID3 naming
> conventions, because those conventions are useless for classical and
> esoteric music.  Since it's hard to deal with arbitrary tags in the
> player, could Rhythmbox perhaps use "filename" as a full-featured
> field?
> 
> For example, I have 32 files whose Title is "Le Nozze di Figaro".
> They come in a defined order, but Rhythmbox doesn't know that.  There
> is no "Artist" (although there is a "Composer", a "Conductor", several
> "Performers", etc...).  Here's an example filename:
> 
>   Mozart - K.492 Le Nozze di Figaro - (25) Ecco la marcia.ogg
> 
> It would be really great to allow the playlist to manipulate filename
> (not URL or Location, or possibly Location with the
> "file:///home/ben/music" trimmed off the beginning...).
> 
> This bug is similar to 192579, but I'd prefer being able to sort by
> just filename, and I don't think that adding support for a few more of
> the many possible tags is productive, since not all files have
> compatible fields.

Upstream bugs http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=559521 and
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=592672 request to be able to search by
filename, but not for the filename to be in the playlist columns.

I've forwarded it to 593472.

Emilio

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